Overview
- Offers the first book length synthesis of social science approaches to tree health
- Demonstrates the qualitative and quantitative approaches used in describing the human dimensions of forest and tree health
- Argues for greater collaboration and funding for inter-country research projects in order to conduct comparative studies that facilitate knowledge exchange
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This book explores the specifically human dimensions of the problem posed by a new generation of invasive pests and pathogens to tree health worldwide. The growth in global trade and transportation in recent decades, along with climate change, is allowing invasive pests and pathogens to establish in new environments, with profound consequences for the ecosystem services provided by trees and forests, and impacts on human wellbeing. The central theme of the book is to consider the role that social science can play in better understanding the social, economic and environmental impacts of such tree disease and pest outbreaks. Contributions include explorations of how pest outbreaks are socially constructed, drawing on the historical, cultural, social and situated contexts of outbreaks; the governance and economics of tree health for informing policy and decision-making; stakeholder engagement and communication tools; along with more philosophical approaches that draw on environmental ethics to consider ‘non-human’ perspectives. Taken together the book makes theoretical, methodological and applied contributions to our understanding of this important subject area and encourages researchers from across the social sciences and humanities to bring their own disciplinary perspectives and expertise to address the complexity that is the human dimensions of forest and tree health.
Chapters 5 and 11 are open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.
Chapters 5 and 11 are open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.
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Keywords
- Tree disease
- Risk communication
- Stakeholder engagement
- United States Forest Service
- Forest biosecurity
- Environmental ethics
- anthropocentrism
- biocentrism
- digital forestry
- ecosystem services
- environmental ethics
- Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA)
- Forest Research (FR)
- FSC® certification (Forest Stewardship Council)
- Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
- Pine processionary moth (Thaumetopeo pityocampa Schiffemüller)
- Tree Health & Plant Biosecurity Initiative
- forest ownership
- Tree Biology
- Forestry Management
Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Julie Urquhart is a Senior Research Fellow at the Countryside & Community Research Institute, University of Gloucestershire, UK.
Mariella Marzano is a Senior Social Scientist in Forest Research at the Northern Research Station, UK.
Clive Potter is Professor of Environmental Policy at the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, UK.
Mariella Marzano is a Senior Social Scientist in Forest Research at the Northern Research Station, UK.
Clive Potter is Professor of Environmental Policy at the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Human Dimensions of Forest and Tree Health
Book Subtitle: Global Perspectives
Editors: Julie Urquhart, Mariella Marzano, Clive Potter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76956-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76955-4Published: 03 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08333-5Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76956-1Published: 24 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 498
Number of Illustrations: 38 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environment Studies, Environmental Sociology, Tree Biology, Forestry Management